Looking for 'best' ripping EXTERNAL drive

[Alant]

Recommendations please for a very good ripping external drive .......before I go crazy looking at them all !!!! :teufel8:

[Alant]

Re: Looking for 'best' ripping EXTERNAL drive

What about .....

Plextor PX-L890UE - Disk drive - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM - 24x24x12x - Hi-Speed USB/Serial ATA - external - LightScribe

[Spoon]

Re: Looking for 'best' ripping EXTERNAL drive

Buy two cheap ones, which have a different offset on accuraterip.com, then you will possibly have better than one expensive one.

[Alant]

Re: Looking for 'best' ripping EXTERNAL drive

Spoon - not sure what 'different offset on accuraterip.com' means? I am finding selection a nightmare - can you suggest two externals?

Buy two cheap ones, which have a different offset on accuraterip.com, then you will possibly have better than one expensive one.

[Spoon]

Re: Looking for 'best' ripping EXTERNAL drive

It means two drives which are different, from different manufacturers, this gives the best chance of reading all possible discs.

[RLANE]

Re: Looking for 'best' ripping EXTERNAL drive

What interface (eSata, USP, Firewire) do you prefer?
You might be best off buying one (or two, if you are going to follow Spoons advice) 5.25 inch external enclosures capable of housing optical drives (the Vantec NexStar DX is a great one), which gives you the flexibility to select whatever optical drive you like the most, and replace it down the road without paying the "additional" generally required for an external drive.

[Spoon]

Re: Looking for 'best' ripping EXTERNAL drive

eSATA would be best

[RLANE]

Re: Looking for 'best' ripping EXTERNAL drive

I totally agree.
Even better with SATA/600 (aka SATA III).
I haven't seen any SATA/600 optical drives yet, or external enclosures fro SATA/600 devices.
Anyone else seen any of those yet?